Improving the quality of statistical surveys
By: papers contributed as a memorial to Samuel Weiss. Sponsored by the Washington Statistical Society in collaboration with the American Statistical Association.
Publisher: distributed by the American Statistical Association
Published: 1956
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Weiss, Samuel.; Statistics.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Foreword, by W. G. Cochran.; title: Tax returns as a source of benchmark statistics, by H. F. Demond.; title: Use of a sample survey for estimating an aggregate quarterly financial statement for a population of corporations, by D. M. Gilford and C. L. Marks.; title: Non-sampling errors in agricultural surveys, by W. A. Hendricks.; title: New measures of economic fluctuations, preliminary comments and illustrations, by J. Shiskin.; title: A proposed study for extending the scope and improving the quality of mortality data, by W. Haenszel, I. M. Moriyama and M. G. Sirken.; title: Controlling quality in railroad traffic statistics, by R. T. Smith, III.; title: Some  problems in the statistical measurement of chronic disease, by T. D. Woolsey and H. Nisselson.; title: Some notes on a study of response, by D. E. Young.